Joe Karlosi
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Originally Posted by Don Solosan ">[/url]
"[/QUOTE]Okay, the way I joined those two together at the same point may have been poorly done. I'm just telling you what I experience. I hear people of all ages, some who are movie buffs, most who aren't though - saying they're remaking everything today and it's gotten out of control. I'd say that the general public are now aware that we're facing a trend of "Remake-itis" . That term "Remake-itis" was a term I read from a critic in a recent article about the subject; it was not a term which was ever used back in the 1930s-1990s. The closest I can recall to such a term was "sequelitis" back in the '80s.
But I am suggesting that [i]Michael's[/i] observations negate each other. He has said (if not here in this thread, then in other discussions over the years I've known him online) that most people don't even know that these newer versions are remakes... yet he feels that people tend to want to seek out remakes more than original movies. How does that work? It can't be that they're buying their tickets [i]because[/i] they're remakes if they don't know they're remakes.